Tag: grain markets
‘Fake news’? Grain traders decry USDA report
To say the numbers released by the National Agricultural Statistics Service are incredible is an understatement. To say they are being met with disbelief is universal. The grain market will be shaken for much of the summer.
Grain futures markets rally after losses
Grain markets rallied, in reaction to USDA June 24 reports, which detailed continued incomplete planting and dreadful crop conditions.
Good weather has (some) farmers smiling again
Large areas of the Midwest still have very little planting done. Where it is good, it is very good, but where it is bad, it is awful.
Slow planting progress dominates grain markets
The reality of really delayed corn planting is that acres will be reduced by either prevented planting for a switch to soybeans.
Weather, China, carryout = grim grain markets
The reality in today's grim grain markets is that the bad weather is not even in the USDA reports yet.
USDA planting, stocks reports shock market
The USDA shocked the markets with Prospective Planting and Grain Stocks reports Friday, March 29.
Market ignores flooding, focuses on USDA’s stocks report
Between the ground farmers expect to plant in 2019 and the crops still in storage, the acreage lost for the 2019 growing season to flooding may not matter.
Rumors of greatness, but markets still so-so
Much has been promised amid this ongoing trade war, but we still don't have the results we're expecting.
Uncertainty defines the grain markets
The U.S. grain market is finding it hard to define what is going on, and that results in nervous traders and a directionless market, says our fearless grain commentator Marlin Clark.
Slow wheat planting supporting stronger grain prices
Problems in Kansas planting their hard red winter wheat is supporting both the Kansas City and Chicago wheat markets.
